I think I just had the first MirageForum meet!
Do two Mirages count as a meet?
Until tonight, I hadn't seen another Mirage in person in my small city (which has no Mitsu dealership). But today within 3 minutes, I saw TWO, and had an impromptu Mirage meet-up with one of them. It never rains, it pours.
I spotted the first one I while scouting locations to take photos of the loaner Mirage from Mitsu Canada: an identical infrared base model went by in the other direction. So of course I stuck my arm out the window and waved (the guy looked shocked). I turned the car around to, uh, stalk him I guess. But I lost him.
However, not 3 minutes later I spotted this plasma purple one driving out of a popular park and gave another big wave out the window. Big smiles this time, and they pulled over. It was the same local car I heard about from a friend (and posted about in the Mirages spotted in the wild thread).
Had a nice chat with a friendly couple who seem to be enjoying the car. It's hers; his car is a JDM Nissan Skyline (summer car).
"What was the main thing that made you buy it?" I asked.
Without hesitating she said, "THE COLOUR!!"
She bought it 2 weeks after seeing a Mirage commercial. Top spec CVT. (That's the "SE" trim in Canada). She says she gets lots of compliments on it.
I floated the idea of comparing fuel economy, CVT vs. 5MT, on her regular 25 km (16 mi.) commute sometime next week, and she thought that would be fine.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 62.4 mpg (US) ... 26.5 km/L ... 3.8 L/100 km ... 74.9 mpg (Imp)